spicery

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noun

Spices, in general.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounspicery (countable and uncountable, plural spiceries)

plural spiceries

  1. countableuncountableSpices, in general.
  2. archaiccountableuncountableA repository of spices.

    Did not cotton spin itself, beef grow, and groceries and spiceries come in from the East and the West, quite comfortably by the side of shams?

    1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets: The present time
    1 more example

    Then in the hall kitchen, two clerks of the kitchen, a clerk comptroller, a surveyor of the dresser, a clerk of the spicery; all which together kept also a continual mess in the hall; also, in his hall kitchen, he had of master cooks two; and of other cooks, labourers, and children of the kitchen, twelve persons : four yeomen of the silver scullery, two yeomen of the pantry, with two other pastelers under the yeomen.

    1815, Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale, London and Middlesex: or, An historical, commercial, & descriptive survey of the Metropolis of Great-Britain, page 370

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored

Broader
taste property

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Old Frenchespicerie
  2. Middle Englishspicerie
  3. Englishspicery

From Middle English spicerie, from Old French espicerie; equivalent to spice + -ery.

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Translations

Bulgarian подправки
  • подправки (podpravki)spices in general
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Chicago

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